A while back there was a post on Passion for Puzzles about a new kind of puzzle called KenKen puzzles. The puzzle was featured on the Times Online site where a few puzzles were printed along with an article about the puzzles’ creator Tetsuya Miyamoto. To be honest, I only skimmed the article. It seemed to be more about the creator’s teaching philosophy than about puzzles.
KenKen puzzles are a variation of killer sudokus. The layout is exactly the same. The only difference is that the groups of boxes have not only a number, which in killer sudoku would represent the sum of the numbers in the boxes, but they also contain an arithmetic operator which tells you what to do with the numbers. They need not only be sums. They can be differences, products, or quotients.
Enjoy!
Tags: kenken,puzzles,sudoku
It’s Really Cool and challenging This Game!
I found it in a german magazine and it was great!
unfortunatelly it’s still not wide spread and i cannot find any of it anymore!!
wish to know where to play it online or wish to know a book for kenken puzzle!!!
Comment by ahmed — May 5, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
While I found these puzzles interesting at first, once you’ve done a dozen or so they ceased to be challenging.
However, there’s a variation on this that gives you the total to reach but omits the operator, so it’s an additional factor for you to figure out. I’ve found that this is the only way (for me) that these puzzles remain challenging.
Comment by Francis — May 12, 2008 @ 5:05 am
[...] in April, I put up a post about KenKen puzzles when they first started appearing on the Times Online site. Now Will Shortz is jumping on the [...]
Pingback by Will Shortz does KenKen » puzzlinks.com — September 7, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Folks, I’ve started posting daily KenKen puzzles on my website. I’ve also introduced KenKen variations (overlapping, diagonal etc.)
Check them out!
Comment by djape — October 6, 2008 @ 2:28 am
Oh, I forgot the url… visit:
http://www.djape.net/sudoku/wp/
Comment by djape — October 6, 2008 @ 2:28 am
Hey everyone, I just launched a new site to play games online. If you get a chance, check it out at: http://webkendoku.com/
Comment by webkendoku — December 10, 2008 @ 10:17 pm
Just to give everyone an update, we just completed a Google Gadget and now you can play games from your http:://www.google.com/ig homepage.
You can add the gadget to your homepage from:
http://bit.ly/2LqOPA
or
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=hosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F110161288541501636141%2Fkenken.xml
Comment by webkendoku — December 18, 2008 @ 8:22 am
there are now 2 google gadgets available, 4×4 and 6×6. if anyone is interested, see below:
4×4 – http://www.googlemodules.com/module/8622/
6×6 – http://www.googlemodules.com/module/8634/
at googlemodules.com you can preview, add to your google homepage, and pull some script code to run it on your own websites.
Comment by webkendoku — December 19, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
if googlemodules.com is unavailable, the 4×4 and 6×6 kenken games are mirrored and also available at
http://www.googleminiapps.com/fun-games/play-4×4-kendoku-and-kenken-online-gadget/
http://www.googleminiapps.com/fun-games/play-6×6-kendoku-and-kenken-online-gadget/
thanks.
Comment by webkendoku — December 24, 2008 @ 5:25 am
hey kenken is the best so yah try it and enjoy.
Comment by Xist — June 4, 2009 @ 4:51 pm